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<h2>THE FROGS ASKING FOR A KING</h2>
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<p>Time was when the Frogs were discontented because they had no
one to rule <span class="picturedef over">over</span>
 them: so they sent a deputation to <span class="picturedef jupiter">jupiter</span>
 to ask
him to give them a <span class="picturedef king">king</span>
. <span class="picturedef jupiter">jupiter</span>
, despising the folly of their
request, <span class="picturedef cast">cast</span>
 a log into the pool where they lived, and said that
that should be their <span class="picturedef king">king</span>
. The Frogs were terrified at first by the
<span class="picturedef splash">splash</span>
, and scuttled away into the deepest parts of the pool; but
by and by, when they <span class="picturedef saw">saw</span>
 that the log remained motionless, one by
one they ventured to the surface again, and before long, growing
bolder, they began to feel such contempt for it that they even took
to sitting upon it. Thinking that a <span class="picturedef king">king</span>
 of that sort was an insult
to their dignity, they sent to <span class="picturedef jupiter">jupiter</span>
 a second time, and begged
him to take away the sluggish <span class="picturedef king">king</span>
 he had given them, and to give
them another and a better one. <span class="picturedef jupiter">jupiter</span>
, annoyed at being pestered
in this way, sent a Stork to rule <span class="picturedef over">over</span>
 them, who no sooner arrived
among them than he began to <span class="picturedef catch">catch</span>
 and eat the Frogs as <span class="picturedef fast">fast</span>
 as he
could.</p>
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